Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
If the Minister met with SEEFA and many other farming organisations, such as the IFA, which the Minister mentioned he met, they would tell him that the thing that has caused more consternation has been the Department's failure to adequately compensate farmers for ash dieback. My question is not related to that but relates to whether or not, in this deal, Gresham House has secured protections for invasive diseases or any other areas in which farmers would not be protected if they entered the forestry programme. Is the Minister aware of any of those protections being provided by Coillte in this deal?
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